Fast facts:The Riescrater-Museum Noerdlingen is a museum that forms part of the Bavarian Natural History Collections. It focuses on a natural disaster originating from outer space that occurred approximately 15 million years ago in Germany on the border between the Franconian and the Swabian Jura Mountains: the impact of an asteroid with a diameter of about 1 kilometre that created the "Nördlinger Ries" - a meteorite crater with a diameter of 23-24 kilometres.

The complexity of a meteorite impact of this magnitude, its extraterrestrial origin, and its consequences are demonstrated at the Rieskrater-Museum Noerdlingen. These topics are presented in such a way as to give information to both the interested layman and the scientist.